Re: Character Sets - Design Question
Posted by: Brian Papantonio
Date: April 13, 2007 02:46PM

If you set your columns as VARCHAR instead of CHAR, then it will only use as many bytes as necessary to store the character data (even UTF-8). Full info here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-requirements.html

PHP has pretty poor support for multibyte characters, so indeed make sure you have it all figured out before launching your site:

http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets

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